warner studios Amadeus

best actor a really superb performance is an actor getting out of his own way trusting that the character he's playing has a life of its own and allowing that character to be what it must be the five actors nominated tonight have accomplished just that for his role as a man consumed by envy of Wolfgang Mozart in Amadeus F Murray Abraham as a being from another planet with much to teach us in Starman Jeff Bridges for his portrait of a man driven to self-destruction in under the volcano Albert Finney in the title role of the immortal musical prodigy Amadeus Tom Howe and as the American reporter whose life has changed forever by the war in Southeast Asia in the killing field Sam Waterson the winner is f Murray yeah it would be a lie if I told you I didn't know what to say because I've been working on this speech for about 25 years but you were not going to hear any of those speeches becaus